Murder Suspect In Eket Arrested In P H

The police in Akwa Ibom State have arrested in Port Harcourt a suspect believed to be responsibe for the murder of  an Eket-based businesswoman, Mrs Juliana Dimaka.
Dimaka, the owner of Testimony Supermarket at Grace Bill Street in Eket, was alleged to have been strangled to death at her home on October 17 at 8.00p.m.
A reliable police source at the Eket Divisional Police Station, who craved anonymity, confirmed the arrest of the suspect to The Tide’s source  yesterday in Eket.
The source said crack detectives from the Akwa Ibom Command investigating the murder traced the suspect to Port Harcourt where he fled to evade arrest.
According to the police source, the suspect was traced to his friend’s apartment in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, where he was hiding.
“We traced and tracked the culprit to Port Harcourt in Rivers State and arrested him and took him to Ikot Akpanbia in Uyo”, he said.
When contacted, the Command’s Police Public Relations Officer, SP MacDon Odiko, would neither confirm nor deny the arrest of the suspect.
“I am not confirming anything to you until I’m able to get information on the matter.

“It will take me time and I have a lot on my table now, but if you have any information, send to me, so that I can start digging”, the PPRO said.